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Dry Drayton, Cambridgeshire

Historical Description

Drayton, Dry, a parish in Cambridgeshire, on an affluent of the river Ouse, near the Via Devana, 2½ miles SW of Oakington station on the G.E.R., and 5 NW of Cambridge. It has a post office under Cambridge; money order and telegraph office, Cambridge. Acreage, 2421; population, 345. The living is a rectory and a vicarage in the diocese of Ely; gross yearly value, £216 with residence. The church has a brass of 1520, and is good. There are Baptist and Primitive Methodist chapels.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Ancient CountyCambridgeshire 
Ecclesiastical parishDry Drayton St. Peter and St. Paul 
HundredChesterton 
Poor Law unionChesterton 

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.


Civil Registration

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Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Dry Drayton from the following:


Land and Property

The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Cambridgeshire is available to browse.


Maps

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Newspapers and Periodicals

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Visitations Heraldic

The Visitations of Cambridgeshire 1575 and 1619 is available online.

DistrictSouth Cambridgeshire
CountyCambridgeshire
RegionEastern
CountryEngland
Postal districtCB23
Post TownCambridge

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